- 5 hours
It’s a weird ad for drive-in theaters huh?
Each epoch of technology democratizes elements of society whilst also making those elements less social, less community oriented.
Stage plays were a thing, then eventually cinema and drive-ins, then TV, and now watching shows on our personal computers and devices.
Each time there’s be less chances of interaction with other people in order to get the supposed “reward” of service delivery.
This goes not just for media and cinema, but for ALL technology:
Camp fires -> shared candle/gas lamp -> electric lighting.
Just for street lights in the age of lamp oil you had not only all the industry to supply wicks and oil, but also every day jobs like lamplighters (lighting the street lamps) and Link-boys. (Paid to follow you with a lamp on streets without gas lighting).
The desire we’re heading towards seems to be singular isolated technological ubermensch completely isolated travelling the galaxy with all the technological capabilities of a society, but no longer needing anyone from society. The blessings of technological convenience as our only curse.
- 4 hours
It’s AI
Also the speakers typically were designed to clip to the window. This woman has not only put it on her dash, but gone through the effort of snaking it through the steering wheel.
- 4 hours
Thanks, and for once it’s a relief… The weird dad smoking with little girls ass on display just has very sus vibes. Makes more sense that it would be a pornified AIs impression of a 1950s ad, than an actual 1950s ad.
4 hoursbut no longer needing anyone from society
Technology has a way of wearing out and breaking. Who’s going to fix all of your various machines you depend on? You? Who will machine the replacement parts, fix the code, supply the raw materials? You?
No, we’ll always need each other. No one is an island. We can’t do everything ourselves.
- 4 hours
We can’t do everything ourselves.
No, the whole idea is that we don’t do ANYTHING ourselves. In the proposed futurist model of ubermensch via technology, technology would fix technology.
So we’d have self-replicating 3D technology-printers, that would self repair.
Normally I wouldn’t say that kind of thing, but this time it’s what I meant as the theological aims of a more tech, less social “society”. It’s the argument I was laying out.
So it was more: with enough technology every man is a sentient super powerful magical island …with no friends, no community, and no identity beyond existentialism.
Also, this isn’t sci fi, I’m just following what’s happened so far and saying a particular aspect of the trend. Repirmen used to be more common, less advanced technology was more social. Now we already have plenty of self-diagnosing systems. Printers that tell you what’s wrong with them, computers that can self repair, machines that are more durable and hence require less and less maintenance (and ergo, less repairmen to talk to, so less social).
- 4 hours
I was always one of the guy in the trunk. My buddy used to love hitting speed bumps with a little too much gusto.
- makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
You can still sneak in booze. I bring my water bottle in every time I go to the theater and they never check what’s inside it
- 4 hours
There was one a few miles outside of town when I was in HS in WI in the early 80s (it was actually very much like That 70s Show). The entire back row of cars were high school kids. And a keg or two. Drinking age was still 18 so it wasn’t hard to get.
